Process Chain Monitoring - Approach and Correction
shailesh patil
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Company: Infosys
Posted on Sep. 26, 2011 03:32 AM in Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, SAP Developer Network| | Subscribe| | Print|| Permalink|| Share ||The process chain monitoring is an important activity in Business Warehouse management mainly during support. So it is necessary to know different errors which occur during monitoring and take necessary actions to correct process chains in order to support smoothly.Some points to remember while monitoring: 1. In case of running local chain, right click and go to process monitor to check if there is any failure in any process step. It may happen that there might be failure in one of the parallel running process in the chain. 2. Right click and select “Display messages” option to know more about reason of the failure in any step of process chain. 3. Try to correct step which takes longer time to complete by comparing with other processes which are running in parallel. 4. Check the lock entries on Targets in SM12 transaction. This will give you an idea for all the locks for the target. 5. Perform RSRV check to analyze the error and correct it in relevant scenarios.Monitoring - Approach and Correction: Description | Approach/Analysis| Correction| Failure in the Delete Index or Create Index step| Go to the target and check if any load is running| Trigger the chain ahead if indexes are already deleted in other process chain| Long running Delete Index or Create Index job| Compare the last run time of job. If it taking more time, check system logs in SM21 and server processes in SM51 | Inform BASIS team with system log and server processes details| | Check the SM12 transaction entries for any locks on target from some other step| Stop the delete index or create index and repeat it once lock is released| Attribute change run failure| Check the error message| Check the...

...MARS CHOCOLATE SUPPLY CHAINPROCESS.
Headquartered in Mount Olive, New Jersey, U.S., Mars Chocolate is one of the world’s leading chocolate manufacturers and employs more than 15,000 Associates across 19 countries. They have thirty-four brands in total, including five billion-dollar global brands - M&M’S®, SNICKERS®, DOVE®/GALAXY®, MARS®/MILKY WAY® and TWIX®. Other leading brands include: 3 MUSKETEERS®, BALISTO®, BOUNTY®, MALTESERS® and REVELS® .
All their suppliers range from small farming cooperatives to multinational corporations . They consider factors such as capacity, quality and cost when selecting companies to buy from. In addition, seek only to work with suppliers that can consistently meet standards and specifications and are committed to standards of conduct compatible pinciples.In 2011, they formalized their global responsible sourcing strategy and set consistent sourcing standards for all business segments. This framework ensures a globally aligned approach to how assess, monitor and train their supply chain partners.
They developed a companywide Supplier Code of Conduct in 2009 to capture the spirit of the way we do business and set globally aligned standards for all our suppliers. These include 10 workplace standards that meet or exceed International Labour Organization guidelines. The Supplier Code of Conduct also requires suppliers to comply with the U.K. Bribery Act and U.S. Foreign and Corrupt Practices...

...used by systems analysts to design information-processing systems but also as a way to model whole organizations. You build a DFD at the very beginning of your business process modeling in order to model the functions your system has to carry out and the interaction between those functions together with focusing on data exchanges between processes. You can associate data with conceptual, logical, and physical data models and object-oriented models.
There are two types of DFDs, both of which support a top-down approach to systems analysis, whereby analysts begin by developing a general understanding of the system and gradually break components out into greater detail:
• Logical data flow diagrams - are implementation-independent and describe the system, rather than how activities are accomplished.
• Physical data flow diagrams - are implementation-dependent and describe the actual entities (devices, department, people, etc.) involved in the current system.
DFDs can also be grouped together to represent a sub-system of the system being analyzed.
A data flow diagram can look as follows:
PowerDesigner support for DFD includes:
• Support for the Gane & Sarson and Yourdon notations, which you choose between by selecting Tools > Model Options.
• Automatic processes and data stores numbering (see Process and Data Store Numbering).
• Data flow diagram balancing.
• Data Flow Diagram specific validation rules. Power Designer may perform...

...Supply ChainProcess for the Electric Fans
Riordan’s China plant operates as a decentralized unit of Riordan. It prepares its own forecast of electric fan sales throughout the world. It schedules production of these fans to meet the forecasted sales. The electric motors used in the fans are completely assembled units purchased from a local Chinese company. While this company attempts to maintain adequate quantities of electric motors in stock to meet all its order requirements, its on-time deliveries over the past year have averaged only 93% (Chase, Jacobs, & Aquilano, 2006).
The current supply chainprocess is similar to the “responsive supply chainprocess” which is characterized by having the ability to quickly adapt products to the unique requirements of each customer. They also use built-to-order and customization processes.
It would be beneficial to adapt the “agile supply chainprocess” to build upon the current process and address the issue of electric motor deliveries by the existing supplier. The agile supply chainprocess utilizes strategies aimed at being responsive and flexible to customer needs, while the risks of supply shortages or disruptions are hedged by pooling inventory and other capacity resources. These supply chains essentially have strategies in place that...

...﻿Republic of the Philippines
BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY
JPLPC- Malvar Campus
Malvar, Batangas
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING SCIENCES
LAB EQUIPMENT FAMILIARIZATION EXP. 1
Submitted to: Ms. Yzle Marie Balita
Submitted by: Jesmar T. Angulo
(IE-411)
Rating:
LAB EQUIPMENT FAMILIARIZATION EXP. 1
Objectives
To be familiar with the main blocks of the oscilloscope and the function of each block.
Understand how an oscilloscope works, and how to use the various controls.
Generate and explore different waveforms that are commonly used.
Compute and measure Vp-p, Vp, Vavg, and Vrms.
Measure the period and frequency of periodic ac signals.
Procedure
Equipment & Part List
1- Oscilloscope 2- Function Generator (FG) or Signal Generator
3- Digital Multimeter (DMM) 4- Bread-board
6- Connection Wires and coaxial cable Probes
PART A – Using Oscilloscope and Function Generator
1- Turn on the Oscilloscope, choose CH1 from the Vertical Mode (to display only channel 1 signal). Set the Oscilloscope’s “Volts/Division” knob for “channel 1” to 2V/DIV, and set the sweep “Seconds/Division” knob to 0.2 ms/DIV.
2- Set the coupling switch (AC/DC/GND) to GND and move the trace to the middle of the screen. When you finish set the coupling switch to AC again.
3- Turn on the Function Generator and connect the output of it to the input of CH1 of the...